Lord Byron Quotes, Wings Quotes, Quiet Quotes

This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

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The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown spheres and powers; a subtle attitude of awed listening, as if for the beating of black wings or the scratching of outside shapes and entities on the known universe's utmost rim.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Wings Quotes

Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Angel Quotes , Wings Quotes

The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Fear Quotes , Wings Quotes

Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Wings Quotes , Reason Quotes

The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Wings Quotes , Race Quotes

The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.

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It is impossible to think about the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is impossible for a bird to fly on only one wing.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Wings Quotes

Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut away Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Wings Quotes

There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.

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Tags : Adam Pally Quotes , Wings Quotes , Order Quotes

God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Wings Quotes , Giving Quotes

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wings Quotes , Bird Quotes

For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.

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Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Song Quotes , Wings Quotes

Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Wings Quotes , White Quotes

Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Wings Quotes , Thrones Quotes

Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Air Quotes , Wings Quotes

We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Wings Quotes , Feet Quotes

Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Wings Quotes , Bird Quotes

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

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Tags : Adelbert von Chamisso Quotes , Men Quotes , Wings Quotes